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Ring confirms its camera drone won’t have manual controls after crashing on CBS News
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The Ring Drone Cam will entirely rely on AI autopilot to fly around your home.
The Ring Drone Cam will entirely rely on AI autopilot to fly around your home.
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When (or if) Ring’s security camera drone flies into our homes in January, you won’t get the option to pilot it yourself. The Ring Drone Cam relies entirely on an “AI Pilot” system to follow pre-programmed routes and navigate autonomously around obstacles, with no manual control option available — and an embarrassing demonstration with CBS News might reveal why.
The video, broadcast on CBS Mornings and published on Threads, shows Ring founder Jamie Siminoff allowing technology reporter Jo Ling Kent to manually fly an early version of the drone via a mobile app with integrated controls.
The demo then shows the drone crashing twice while being manually piloted. In the first instance, Ring reportedly told CBS News that the drone’s collision avoidance technology malfunctioned, and declined to share the video recorded by the drone prior to crashing. CBS News caught the second crash on camera, with the footage showing the drone colliding with a wall after failing to respond to manual controls. According to Siminoff, this occurred because the drone lost internet connectivity — which it also relies on to fly autonomously.